Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-01-13


horse the farmer wanted. Mr. YouD
advocated the use of corn for wintt
feed, and oats for summer, but though
corn and timothy too heating and cor
stipating; believed colts and horse
should be well sheltered and kindl
treated. All the speakers advocate
the weaving of colts at six months. an
their breaking at from to years. Tn
paper will appear in these columns mex
week.
At 1I:I5 The discussion was brough
to conclusion in order to give hear
ing to Hon w n CowdeD, who had bee
detained by belated train, on the topic
sheep growing an aid TO better farm
ing" Mr. Cowden was heartily receives
by the audience, and his paper, which
appears substantially in full on the frs
page of this impression, elected tn
closest attention. Mr. Cowdeu is prime
| faGorite with the farmers OF this section
and his paper will bear close reading.
Upon the conclusion of Mr. COwden'
address recess was taken for dinner.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The afternoon session opened will
music by the Glee Club. Gen I NJ Rar
rIs, of West Va, was introduced, anC
opened the subject of Dairying in Al
exhaustive paper; he thought in choos
ing certain branch of agriculture, farm
ers should seek that phase of farming
| which will admit of the sale of its pro
ductions by the least expense,an thought
daIrying was that branch; he believed
the farm needed to be cultivated in such
way as to yield the largest amount OF
succulent GRASSES aud forage crops; he
was cautious in advocating ensilage
but had witnessed the process adopted
by Mr. J II Dennam, and said it com
mended itself TO his judgment to obtain
the best results from COWS; be adVoca'
ted the use of bran to supplement good
grass or fodder forage and corn and cob
crushed with oats for heating food; for
butter dairyipg be thought the Jersey
was the best COW, unsurpassed indeed
for milk dairying the Ayrshires and
FresiaD breeds; he did not believe
there was an all-purpose COW; tie Gen
eral, who is one of the largest Jersey
cattle breeders in West Va, then went
into description of the latest and i'm
proved methods of butter making. A
very complete synopsis of this interest
ing address will be found in another
column.
After more music by the Glee club, Mr.
J H Close of st C:airsyille, was intro
duced, and talked for an hour very en-
tertainingly of his views and impress
siOns of South America; he carried bis
audience from New York via Newport
News, stopping at Barbados, st Thom-
as. Rio De .Janerio and Buenos Ayres,
relating many incidents, humorous and
entertaining; he dwelt upon the extor
tionate practices, notably of the trans
fer agents at Buenos Ayres. Speaking
of the farming of South America, be
spoke of the immense leagues of land
that are cultivated in that country /;
farms were not measured by acres. but
by leagues-that each league would
sustain % 600 sheep, 5000 horses, and
5000 cattle. South America alone pro-
duces annually 100000 sheep, that
will produce ~ pOuncs of good un-
washed wool, and in addition raise in
the Australian Colonies 75.O00000 lbs,
and of this great quantity 4O,O0O,000
pounds were exported to the United
States last year, as much as our entire
production. Speaking of the horses of
South America, he said vast herds were
annually, their skins and
hoofs shipped to France, and their oil
to Europe and thence TO the Q. States.
where it was employed in the manufac-
ture of oleomargerine. He said the
horsemapshIp of the natives was simply
superb; they would lasso wild horse
and in three days would be working
him in the carts and wagons of the
town; horses were never hitched 10y
the head, but we're fastened by strips of
hide to their fore feet. The milk was
transported on horseback for 10 and 20I
miles in pouches hat contained aS much
as 40 gallons, and the rider would drive
his pony at gallnp; when the city was
reached, each pouch was skinned and
the butter taken from it and placed in a
cloth and delivered to the customer. who
at the same time purchased The milk for
the home "a new process of churning, GER
tainly; these little ponies were often
hitched to immense carts, weighing 4
tons and upward s, 10 and II ponies
were hitched to one of these carts and
would haul as much as 10000 to 10000
pounds. The oxen were maTvel5 of pa
Hence aud strength, and were not yoked
as American oxen, but were guided by
the driver walking by the side of the
OK; these patient brutes would singly
pull burden of l6 and IS barrels Of
flour. The natives bore immense bur>
deus upon their heads, and not an un-
frequent sight was to behold man car
rying two sacks of coffee upon his head,
which would weigh upward of 400 lbs
Mr. Close concluded by saying that 65
per cent. of exports of South America
came to the United States, while we
give to them but 121z per cent, and in
reply to questions, he said wool could
be grown in South America for cents
q pound, and did not believe we could
ever shut it entirely out of American
ports.
At the conclusion of Mr. Closes re+
marks the Glee club appropriately sang,
Home again, from foreign shore"
EVENING SESSION.
At the concluding session of the In
stitute the church was packed with an
eager and expectaut thrOng of people.
1
by the Glee club, after which the CHAIR
announced Gen Hurst as the first speak
er, on the topic, American Home Life"
The General was received with demon
Strations of pleasure by the large and
attentive audience. His plea for a
higher education was one of the finest
oHr people were ever favored with; an
address aboundiDg in beautiful analo>
gies, and concluding with an eloquent
appeal for the maintenance of our great
free school system, the great democratic
institution OF learning. where rich and
poor met upon common level, and the
honOrs were awarded upon merit alone.
Gen Hurst compared the great mass of
our people to the products of the vege-
table ingdom-dividing them into two
classes. Eudogens. that grew from with
in. and Exogens, that grew from with
former class representing those
whose accomplishments were of the
head and the heart, a spiritual and men, !
foI from mithjn--in this olouo